re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Ukraine has a new culture and that’s a culture of hating Russia.

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I don't think that's new. Stalin murdered and starved to death millions of Ukrainians and then tried to Russify Ukraine itself. For the elderly grand parents of today, that is within a family's living memory. That's like me knowing the stories from my grand parents and parents from the Great Depression (without the mass murder factor).

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Casualties are low.

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Meat wave attacks are perfectly safe I'm sure.

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He sees that Russia has gained a significant upper hand on the ground and he is trying to open the eyes of Ukraine's allies that they must act quick. I'd love to see France take the initiative for the Europeans in stopping Russia. I still don't support any outside troops being put on the ground in Ukraine or Russia, but if he can wake everyone up and get the flow of more and better weapons faster, then I'm all for it.

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Yeah, it's not even a huge change on the ground.

Ukraine is running out of 155mm shells. It's that simple. You cannot win without artillery, and certainly not against the Russians.

Ukraine still maintains a counter-battery advantage. Just get them 155mm shells and Ukraine can hold the line.

[quote]The holdomor is post war mythology,[/quote

To quote Joe Wilson, "YOU LIE!"

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As opposed to Ukraine, who has no election,

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Article 83 of the Ukrainian Constitution states that if the term of the Verkhovna Rada expires under martial law, it shall automatically be extended until a new Rada is seated following the end of martial law. Article 19 of Ukraine’s martial law legislation specifically forbids conducting national elections. Thus, for Ukraine to conduct elections while under martial law would be a violation of legal norms that predate Zelensky and the full-scale Russian invasion.

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How many times do you have to be told that it is illegal to hold elections in Ukraine during a state of emergency.

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no opposition newspapers,

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Just like Russia.

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and no Orthodox Church

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Looks like SirDumbass is wrong again. The Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) which is the church that is officially recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (aka the head of the eastern orthodox church) is there. Ukraine also has catholic churches and protestant churches. Only the Russian backed Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) is banned in Ukraine. The UOC is banned because its priests have been caught openly collaborating with Russia.

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now only their neoshitlib sect is allowed).

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Do you even know how the beliefs of the OCU and UOC are different? The main differences are the OCU follows the revised Julian calendar and UOC does not. The revised Julian Calendar is the calender that the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and most of the Orthodox churches in the world use. The OCU also considered allowing women to enter churches without head coverings and installing benches for seating in churches. Yeah that is really neoliberal.

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The holdomor is post war mythology,

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Holy shite just when I think you can't get any dumber. How much brain damage did you sustain in the military?

I honestly can’t believe I read that either. It just goes to show you how much Russians are truly sheep to believe something as terrible as the Holdomor didn’t happen. HOLY frickING shite! He really will say anything.

On another note, the Russians and their infinite wisdom might have pissed off Greece enough for them to give Ukraine their S-300s for a promise of a Patriot battery. While Greece’s Prime Minister was visiting Odesa with Zelensky they tried firing an Iskander at their convoy but missed by 500 meters.

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French are based

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France has kicked Russia out of Sevastopol before.

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The holdomor is post war mythology

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I won’t insult your intelligence by accusing you of actually believing what you’ve just said.

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I won’t insult your intelligence by accusing you of actually believing what you’ve just said.

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People died all across the farm belt due to starvation, but there was no specific campaign against the Ukrainians, because they were Ukrainians. People have looked through the Soviet archives, there's no record of such a thing. Stalin actually diverted food aid from the Russian SSR to Ukraine.

One of the key contentions of the Holodomor is that it was Russians vs Ukrainians, but the people involved in farm policy weren't ethnic Russians. The Bolsheviks were a coalition of minorities from across the empire, although the leadership was predominantly Jewish, and Russians didn't become a substantial force in the party until after Stalin's purges.

One of the defining features of the Soviet system, especially up through the late 30s, was suppressing "Russian chauvinism", that meant suppressing the Russian identity, but also keeping Russians out of a position of power. Simultaneously, the Soviets as a matter of policy promoted the other nationalities at the expense of the Russians. This was their way of holding the system together . The war changed that, Stalin leaned on Russian nationalism to preserve the USSR, and Russians started taking on positions of power, but they, despite their numbers, would never dominate the party. The worry was always that the Russians would blow up the USSR, which is what Yeltsin, who was a nationalist, ultimately did. So the idea that the Communist Party would target the Ukrainians doesn't make sense, the Ukrainian Communist Party was also the most powerful of the parties, and it dominated the Soviet leadership until the end, that's why so many of the Soviet leaders came from Ukraine.